Future Career In Nursing

“The goal of nursing is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him, primarily by altering the environment”, by Florence Nightingale in 1859 expresses in what nursing means to me. Nursing started out as a career that was based on a collection of specific skills trained to do specific tasks, but with broad advances in facts and technology, Nursing has evolved into a profession where nurses work to promote health, prevent disease, and help patients cope with illnesses. A nurse fill’s the needs of a patient, which cannot be met by either a family member or any other member of their community. Nursing is a helping profession, which provides services that contribute to the health care and well being of the patient. The nursing career was once considered as just an aid but it is now known as vital and crucial part of the health care system. (Perry 25)
Personally, I have always been very attentive, as in the health care, for my family. If there were a weird disease that I did not understand, I would go and look up the information. From there, my interest led to the treatment of the disease and weather or not the disease was curable. This fascination of the human body le

Depending on what field of nursing you consider will determine how much schooling you will need. For a licensed practical nurse, there are both training programs and an associate’s degree in college, which will lead you to your certificate of an LPN. For a registered nurse, you can either have a bachelor’s degree or you can have an associate’s degree in nursing, then take the state examination, which will give you your registration to become a RN. To go further than a RN, you must go to graduate school, which becomes a total of six to seven years. Then there is also the opportunity to get your doctorates degree in nursing. There are many opportunities in which you can get a quick start into nursing career if you decided to change career goal after you already completed your bachelor’s or master’s degree. (Perry 22-24, Mezey 48)

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nursing will be one to the top ten fastest growing professions in the United States in the next decade. By the year 2008, thousands of nurses will be needed. About 450 thousand registered nurses and one 136 thousand licensed practical nurses will be needed. According to the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, the number of first-time, U.S. educated nursing school graduates who sat for the NCLEX-RN, the exam taken to get license as registered nurse, decreased by thirty one percent from 1995 to 2002. That is a total of about thirty thousand students less than expected amount.

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dy led to my have a huge interest in biology. With my study in biology, I tried to use what I have just learned and practice it whenever I had the opportunity. In being the “attentive health care person” at home, I enjoyed the felling of making a person feel better. I could remember as a child hating hospitals and never wanting anything that had to involve one, but as I grew older I learned that my hatred towards the hospital was the terrible felling of seeing sick people. The feeling of not being able to attend to the person’s needs made me anxious because it seemed that there was no hope. That is when I really started to focus on my family’s health. Whether it was running with a band-aid, or a hot soup for my mom when she was sick, the process of their recovery was my enjoyment. This enjoyment was what leads me to my career goal as a nurse.

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In choosing nursing as my career goal, I have come to learn that there are many advantages to this widely diverse career. Since healthcare for a patient can vary from mental treatment to the treatment of a critical patient close to death, there are many different kinds of fields and levels in nursing to consider. There are Licensed Practical Nurses, which take care of the patient under the Registered Nurse’s commands, and there are nurses who study a specific area and only focus on that, like a Nurse Practitioner. Nurses can advance, in management, to assistant head nurse or head nurse. From there, they can advance to assistant director, director, and vice president. Increasingly, management-level nursing positions require a graduate degree in nursing or health services administration. They also require leadership, negotiation